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It was the first open mic I'd attended that started with an ice-breaking speed dating, supposedly to "get in the Valentine's Day mood" after the fact. The surprise reveal was that all of the speed dating…

Describing writers and intellectuals as conscious guardians of society, BJP Senior Leader Devender Singh Rana today hailed the literary contribution of established writers from this part of the country, saying their treasure will inspire…

On February 9, a trailer for the new adaptation of Stephen King's 1980 novel Fire starter has been freed. Blumhouse's next film is directed by Keith Thomas, written by Scott Teems, and will star Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Charlie, with Zac…

Berlin: Taviani keeps finding new ways to evoke his loss, just as the film itself keeps reinventing itself. An unbalanced diptych that welds an intimate travelogue through Italian cinema and history to a rather flimsy literary…

The 53rd edition of the book fair opened on January 26 and will continue until February 7. Christos Papadopoulos, director of the Greek Cultural Center in Cairo, stressed the importance of Greek participation in the fair, adding that…

John Fleming Wilson kept busy in a life that ended too soon. After running away from home, he spent part of his youth working on ships and seeing a variety of exotic ports of call firsthand. After returning to the Continent and studying at…

Hindi is the common thread that connects, binds and gives a sense of belonging to storytellers who use different mediums to take the language to greater heights with their humble efforts. Whether it's an award-winning French…

An American fugitive fled to 1930s Shanghai, burned his fingerprints with acid, and made his first fortune by renting slot machines from the city's many cafes.If you…

If you watched Christmas movies on TV as a kid, you probably have fond memories of the claymation specials - maybe Rudolph the red nosed reindeer was your favorite, or maybe Santa is coming to town. But you might not have realized that…

“A Christmas Memory” is an autobiographical short story about Capote's childhood memories of Christmas in Alabama during the depression era, according to the Penguin Random House website. It has now…

For thousands of years, mankind has looked into the deep, dark sky and wondered: what is there? And over the past few decades, we've taken small steps into the endless mysteries of space, discovering worlds and wonders beyond imagination.…

As part of a flagship agreement for the increasingly global industry of the Spanish-speaking world, Gonzalo Maza, co-writer of "A Fantastic Woman" by Sebastián Lelio, was asked by the production center El Estudio to…

Today, Canadians can now find "book sets" containing the 5 shortlisted novels in hundreds of small free libraries across the country. The collaboration is an important part of Scotiabank's support for the Canadian literary arts and will…

On Wednesday October 6, the English Department hosted its next edition of Literary Arts Live, a monthly series featuring writers reading and discussing their work. This month's session was moderated by English speaker Jessica Anthony and…

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I skipped the Departmental Literary Arts meeting on Monday March 9, and I shouldn't have. Item seven of our agenda, "COVID-19 ”, suddenly became item # 1, and the result, as I soon learned, was that we, the professors of…

Egyptian writer Mohamed Abdel-Nabi, second from left, upon receiving his award Egyptian writer Mohamed Abdel-Nabi won the “Prize for Arabic literature translated into French” for his novel…

It is September and the streets of Berkeley are once again buzzing with the students who have returned to UC Berkeley.Steps from the sprawling campus, a nearby corner is poised to attract even more students. Left Margin LIT, a new…